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16. Partition

Empire

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The New State of Pakistan

The 1946 Great Calcutta killings sparked terrible communal violence. The new state of Pakistan, which has opened in Karachi with a flag-graving, has another entire wing, which is in Bengal. And it's always the, from the beginning, and this is one of the reasons why eventually East Pakistan breaks off and becomes Bangladesh.

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